EXAMPLE This is an example of the backyard and last one standing layout. Every name and number here is made up.
Hollis Grant
Little Rock, AR · Retired mail carrier
The oldest athlete in the field at 63. Out at yard 32, a personal best.
The story
Hollis walked a mail route for 31 years and says a backyard is just a route with a bell. At 63 he is the oldest in the field and went 32 yards · 32 hours · 133.3 mi, a best by four. He timed out at yard 32 on a yard he walked every step of, and the corral stood up for him.
The pre race interview
- How far do you think you can go?
- 28 yards · 28 hours · 116.7 mi.
- What is the farthest you are willing to go?
- 32 yards · 32 hours · 133.3 mi.
- What gets you through the night yards?
- I delivered mail in the dark for three decades. This is nothing.
- What is in your kit?
- Egg salad, bananas, a thermos, a chair and my old route cap in the kit for luck.
- What are you wearing for the race?
- Walking shoes, a windbreaker, the route cap and wool socks.
- Who is crewing you?
- My wife Marjorie, who timed every yard on a kitchen timer.
Yard by yard
Taller is closer to the bell- Yards
- 31 31 hours · 129.2 mi
- Fastest
- 44:42 yard 2
- Slowest
- 59:32 yard 31
- Average
- 51:45
- Last 3 yards
- ↓ slower